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About the security content of watchOS 6.2.5 - Apple Support

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## About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the [Apple security updates](<https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222>) page. Apple security documents reference vulnerabilities by [CVE-ID](<http://cve.mitre.org/about/>) when possible. For more information about security, see the [Apple Product Security](<https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201220>) page. ![](/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/mac_apps/itunes/divider.png) ## watchOS 6.2.5 Released May 18, 2020 **Accounts** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause a denial of service Description: A denial of service issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-9827: Jannik Lorenz of SEEMOO @ TU Darmstadt **AppleMobileFileIntegrity** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application could interact with system processes to access private information and perform privileged actions Description: An entitlement parsing issue was addressed with improved parsing. CVE-2020-9842: Linus Henze (pinauten.de) **Audio** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-9815: Yu Zhou (@yuzhou6666) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **Audio** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted audio file may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-9791: Yu Zhou (@yuzhou6666) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **CoreText** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted text message may lead to application denial of service Description: A validation issue was addressed with improved input sanitization. CVE-2020-9829: Aaron Perris (@aaronp613), an anonymous researcher, an anonymous researcher, Carlos S Tech, Sam Menzies of Sam’s Lounge, Sufiyan Gouri of Lovely Professional University, India, Suleman Hasan Rathor of Arabic-Classroom.com **FontParser** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Opening a maliciously crafted PDF file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-9816: Peter Nguyen Vu Hoang of STAR Labs working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **ImageIO** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-3878: Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero **ImageIO** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted image may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-9789: Wenchao Li of VARAS@IIE CVE-2020-9790: Xingwei Lin of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-9821: Xinru Chi and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine another application's memory layout Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. CVE-2020-9797: an anonymous researcher **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: An integer overflow was addressed through improved input validation. CVE-2020-9852: Tao Huang and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2020-9795: Zhuo Liang of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: An application may be able to cause unexpected system termination or write kernel memory Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-9808: Xinru Chi and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-9811: Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab CVE-2020-9812: derrek (@derrekr6) **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges Description: A logic issue existed resulting in memory corruption. This was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-9813: Xinru Chi of Pangu Lab CVE-2020-9814: Xinru Chi and Tielei Wang of Pangu Lab **Kernel** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application may be able to determine kernel memory layout Description: An information disclosure issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-9809: Benjamin Randazzo (@____benjamin) **libxpc** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application may be able to overwrite arbitrary files Description: A path handling issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2020-9994: Apple Entry added September 21, 2020 **Mail** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted mail message may lead to heap corruption Description: A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2020-9819: ZecOps.com **Mail** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing a maliciously crafted mail message may lead to unexpected memory modification or application termination Description: An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-9818: ZecOps.com **rsync** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A remote attacker may be able to overwrite existing files Description: A validation issue existed in the handling of symlinks. This issue was addressed with improved validation of symlinks. CVE-2014-9512: gaojianfeng Entry added July 28, 2020 **SQLite** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A malicious application may cause a denial of service or potentially disclose memory contents Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. CVE-2020-9794 **System Preferences** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: An application may be able to gain elevated privileges Description: A race condition was addressed with improved state handling. CVE-2020-9839: @jinmo123, @setuid0x0_, and @insu_yun_en of @SSLab_Gatech working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative **WebKit** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2020-9805: an anonymous researcher **WebKit** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2020-9802: Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero **WebKit** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: A remote attacker may be able to cause arbitrary code execution Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. CVE-2020-9850: @jinmo123, @setuid0x0_, and @insu_yun_en of @SSLab_Gatech working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative **WebKit** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting attack Description: An input validation issue was addressed with improved input validation. CVE-2020-9843: Ryan Pickren (ryanpickren.com) **WebKit** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved validation. CVE-2020-9803: Wen Xu of SSLab at Georgia Tech **WebKit** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. CVE-2020-9806: Wen Xu of SSLab at Georgia Tech CVE-2020-9807: Wen Xu of SSLab at Georgia Tech **WebKit** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling. CVE-2020-9800: Brendan Draper (@6r3nd4n) working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative **WebRTC** Available for: Apple Watch Series 1 and later Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may result in the disclosure of process memory Description: An access issue was addressed with improved memory management. CVE-2019-20503: Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero ![](/library/content/dam/edam/applecare/images/en_US/mac_apps/itunes/divider.png) ## Additional recognition **CoreText** We would like to acknowledge Jiska Classen (@naehrdine) and Dennis Heinze (@ttdennis) of Secure Mobile Networking Lab for their assistance. **ImageIO** We would like to acknowledge Lei Sun for their assistance. **IOHIDFamily** We would like to acknowledge Andy Davis of NCC Group for their assistance. **Kernel** We would like to acknowledge Brandon Azad of Google Project Zero for their assistance. **Safari** We would like to acknowledge Luke Walker of Manchester Metropolitan University for their assistance. **WebKit** We would like to acknowledge Aidan Dunlap of UT Austin for their assistance.


Affected Software


CPE Name Name Version
watchos 6.2.5

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